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January 19, 2006

BET: Global Warming Could Spell Disaster for Blacks.

Anyone else reminded of the old joke about the New York Times headline on Judgment Day? "World Ends; Women, Minorities Hit Hardest"?

This thing is a real crock-pot of crockery:

Relatively, Blacks are environmental Good Samaritans. Per capita, we emit approximately 20 percent less carbon dioxide than Whites – well below 2020 targets set by the U.S. Climate Stewardship Act. Not only do we use more energy-conserving public transportation, we spend considerably less per capita on energy-intensive material goods.

But do blacks use the whole animal, you know, like American Indians?

“Katrina showed us that we don’t know how to deal with (environmental disasters),” Miller says. “We really need to make sure that we have mechanisms, escape routes and policies in place that are going to protect those who are most vulnerable.”

Mechanisms. . . like buses?

Anyway. . . I just love the subtext that even Mother Nature is a racist. First it was The Man, now it's The Mom.

Sigh. I just wish I could remind everyone that ALL humans have trouble breathing water with their primate lungs. That whole "drowning" thing tends to inconveniently cut across racial lines. When it comes to the environment, we're all in the same boat, or thrown out of it, together.

posted by Dave From Garfield Ridge at 11:50 PM

Comments

Huh?.......Wha?.......(wipes drool from corner of mouth)....

Posted by: CraigC on January 20, 2006 12:52 AM

I just love the subtext that even Mother Nature is a racist. First it was The Man, now it's The Mom.

See, back in the day, with this kind of provocation, we could have counted on Cedarford to show up with something hilariously outrageous.

BRING BACK CEDARFORD!!!!!

Posted by: Michael on January 20, 2006 01:03 AM

This study is obviously not taking into consideration the planet killing effects of Dark and Lovely and Queen Helene Hot Oil Treatment.

Posted by: Biff Boff on January 20, 2006 01:05 AM

Yet another chapter in the tragic saga "World To End Tomorrow: Women And Minorities Will Be Most Affected."

If these clowns had the dimmest imaginable awareness of what they sound like, or the harm they do their cause every time they open their mouths...they'd probably keep right on as they've done.

Posted by: fporretto on January 20, 2006 04:44 AM

Blacks are environmental Good Samaritans.

Well, someone better tell that to the black teenagers who live in my 'hood. I watch them walk by my house, and drop whatever litter they might have right on the ground. I need to pick the trash up about once a week.

Posted by: carin on January 20, 2006 07:32 AM

When it comes to the environment, we're all in the same boat, or thrown out of it, together.

But everyone knows that all of the white folks have yachts!

Posted by: cirby on January 20, 2006 07:35 AM

Global warming is cuased by HOT AIR from enviromentalists wackos and liberal politicians like AL GORE

Posted by: spurwing plover on January 20, 2006 08:50 AM

Blacks are environmental Good Samaritans

It's a little know fact that putting spinners on your Navigator will actually increase fuel economy equal to a Prius, convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and cause trees to spontaneously sprout from the ground. Nobody really understands why this is so but it was written in BET so theres that...

Posted by: JackStraw on January 20, 2006 09:23 AM

When I lived in Hartford, the black guys that lived in my neighborhood would change their car oil while parked on the street, and drain or dump the old oil into the nearest sewer drain.

But they did it in a very caring, Good-Samaritan-like manner.

Posted by: lauraw on January 20, 2006 10:39 AM

Actually Mother Nature is kinder to dark pigmented persons when it comes to skin cancer. Social justice demands I be reimbursed for sun screen.

Posted by: roc ingersol on January 20, 2006 10:51 AM

The Sun God hates black people!

Posted by: Red Jode on January 20, 2006 11:47 AM

This entry: so funny, it had to be posted on the sidebar too!

Posted by: someone on January 20, 2006 12:40 PM

More CO2 is put our by termites then by all the factories in the world then theres all those hot bubbling mud pots in YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK including OLD FAITHFUL and all those volcanic eruputions

Posted by: spurwing plover on January 21, 2006 09:41 AM